Reading Event 11 Marsha Lederman in conversation with Jane Urquhart

The festival’s feature presentation sees Marsha Lederman in conversation with Jane Urquhart, the award-winning author of seven internationally acclaimed novels: The Whirlpool, which received Le prix du meilleur livre étranger (Best Foreign Book Award) in France; Changing Heaven; Away, winner of the Trillium Award and a finalist for the prestigious International IMPAC
Dublin Literary Award; The Underpainter, winner of the Governor General’s Award, a finalist for the Rogers Communications Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and long-listed for the Orange Prize in Britain; The Stone Carvers, which was a finalist for The Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize; A Map of Glass, a finalist for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book; Sanctuary Line; and most recently, her new book A Number of Things. After the presentation, meet Lederman and Urquhart while our very own local musicians play some of their favourite selections of jazz and blues.